Beware of New Year’s Day Super Speeder Law

Beware, start­ing New Year’s Day the Super Speeder Law takes effect around Metro Atlanta and the State of Georgia.

For those with a heavy foot, watch out! The new law adds an addi­tional $200 fine if you’re trav­el­ing 85 miles per hour or more. On two lane roads the ticket kicks in at 75 miles per hour or more.

That fine comes in a form of a sep­a­rate let­ter sent from the State of Geor­gia. A speeder will have to pay the orig­i­nal ticket which nor­mally car­ries a steep fine and have 90 days in which to pay the addi­tional $200. state fine. Need­less to say, if the fine is not paid the driver’s license will be sus­pended.

The Governor’s Office of High­way Safety is hop­ing this will help reduce acci­dents and save life’s.

The Super Speeder Law offi­cially goes into effect on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, 2010. Appar­ently, there is no other law in any state sim­i­lar to it mak­ing this is the first law of it’s kind in the nation.

Legoland Seaching for Site in Atlanta

Much to kids delight, Legoland is search­ing for a home in Atlanta. Mer­lin Enter­tain­ment Group (Legoland’s par­ent group) plans to build a 30,000 plus square foot Legoland Dis­cov­ery Cen­ter.

Cur­rent Legoland sites under con­sid­er­a­tion include Down­town Atlanta, Buck­head, Atlantic Sta­tion, and Alpharetta.

The Legoland Dis­cov­ery Cen­ter in Atlanta will offer par­ents another family-friendly attrac­tion to take their kids to other than the Geor­gia Aquar­ium, the Cen­ter for Pup­petry Arts and the Children’s Museum. Favorite kids activ­i­ties inside Legoland include the Jun­gle Expe­di­tion, Dragon Cas­tle Ride, a 4-D the­ater, and the Lego Build and Test Cen­ter where kids build and race Lego cars.

Presently, there are only three other Legoland Dis­cov­ery Center’s in the world includ­ing Berlin and Duis­berg in Ger­many. The third one is 30 mile west of Chicago in Schaum­burg, IL. , first opened in July 2008 and has been a suc­cess so far.

The Legoland Dis­cov­ery Cen­ter would be another big Atlanta fam­ily attrac­tion as well as tourist des­ti­na­tion draw­ing vis­i­tors from other cities in the Southeast.

Atlanta Airport Receives Federal Money

ATLANTA — Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Inter­na­tional Air­port will receive $34 mil­lion from the fed­eral gov­ern­ment as part of the stim­u­lus package.

The funds will go to help pay for the new inter­na­tional ter­mi­nal which is expected to cost over $1.3 bil­lion dol­lars. Build­ing of the new May­nard Hol­brook Jack­son Jr. Inter­na­tional Ter­mi­nal began last sum­mer and is expected to be com­pleted in early 2012.

The new inter­na­tional ter­mi­nal is get­ting $14 mil­lion from the FAA’s improve­ment pro­gram for the addi­tion of a twelve gate facil­ity. Upon com­ple­tion, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Inter­na­tional Air­port will have a 40 gate inter­na­tional ter­mi­nal. In addi­tion, the Atlanta Air­port is also set to receive another $20 mil­lion for a bag­gage screen­ing sys­tem from the Trans­porta­tion Secu­rity Administration.

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